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bimetallic, a.|baɪmɪˈtælɪk|
[ad. F. bimétallique, f. bi- two, twice, double + métallique metallic: used for the nonce by M. Cernuschi in addressing the Soc. of Pol. Econ. in Paris, on Jan. 5, 1869; and in its Eng. form in his paper, ‘Silver Vindicated,’ read before the Social Sc. Assoc. at Liverpool in 1876, after which it was universally adopted as the proper word for the system in question.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or using a ‘double standard’ of currency, i.e. one based upon the two metals gold and silver, in opposition to a mono-metallic currency based upon gold or silver alone.
1876(title) ‘La Monnaie bimetallique,’ par Henri Cernuschi, Paris—Eng. Transl. ‘Bi-metallic Money and its bearing on Monetary Crises in Germany, France, England and the United States.’ 1876S. Williamson Let. S. Smith 19 We may find no satisfactory adjustment..without adopting a dual or bimetallic standard. 1877S. D. Horton Silver & Gold 149 The relative amounts of the stock of Bi-metallic countries and of Mono-metallic countries. 1879H. H. Gibbs Silver & Gold 33 In point of fact the world is already bimetallic; but it is an unregulated and haphazard bimetallism which prevails among us.
2. Composed of two different metals; bimetallic strip: a sensitive element in some thermostats, made of two bands of different metals, one of which expands more than the other when the temperature rises, and so causes the strip to bend.
1907U.S. Pat. 851,684, The process..of making bimetallic products such as ingots, sheets, tubes, wires and the like, of different metals welded together. 1922Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. XLIV. 2504 Bimetallic electrode systems in electrometric analysis. I. Systems comprising two dissimilar metals. 1930Engineering 31 Oct. 543/1 The smaller ovens are controlled by a bimetallic-strip thermostat. |